Quotes about Yearning

We love to carry heaven to heaven with us, and would have two summers in one year, and no less than two heavens; but this will not be for us: one, and such an one, may suffice us well enough. The Man Christ got but one only, and shall we have two?

And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

I pray for guidance and strength today, to become the person I long to be and do the things I long to do. I honor the imprint of God upon my soul, and the yearning of my heart to follow the path He lays before me.

An ancient memory of this love haunts all of us all the time, and beckons us to return.

We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.

We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

You made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace till they rest in you.

Anxiety seems to be an intense desire for something, accompanied by a fear of the consequences of not receiving it.